Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Standard Name: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Birth Name: Charlotte Anna Perkins
Married Name: Charlotte Perkins Stetson
Self-constructed Name: C. P. Stetson
CPG , a prolific early twentieth-century American writer and feminist social critic, published satirical poems and nationalist verse, newspaper articles, short stories, serialized novels, and a vast amount of non-fiction. She was unapologetically didactic, and advocated for women's liberation from domestic service in order to better society. Her writing, and in particular her short story The Yellow Wall-Paper, became a touchstone for second-wave feminism in the United States.
Black and white photograph of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, shown in profile, from the torso up, with one hand resting on a fur wrap. She wears a dark jacket over a white shirt and her wavy hair is done in a loose bun.

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Textual Features Vernon Lee
In The Economic Parasitism of WomenVL argues that women's socially-produced dependence on men has caused them to degenerate mentally and physically. She opens with an ironically-inflected confession of her own previous resistance to militant...
Textual Features Kathleen Caffyn
Critic Stephanie Forward has pointed out that at this date the colour yellow signified avant-garde and slightly dangerous fashion, as had been recognised in such literary works as Mona Caird 's The Yellow Drawing-Room and...
Textual Production Edith Craig
The EC archives are housed at the Ellen Terry Memorial Museum at Tenterden in Kent. The collection includes prompt copies of plays by Paul Claudel and Charlotte Perkins Gilman .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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UCLA also holds...
Textual Production Vernon Lee
The title piece first appeared in the Contemporary Review in July 1898. It was reprinted in Andrea Broomfield 's and Sally Mitchell 's Prose by Victorian Women, 1996.
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland.
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The remarkable feminist essay entitled...
Textual Production Mona Caird
MC 's A Romance of the Moors (stories, published at Bristol) included The Yellow Drawing-Room (written 1890, the year that Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, which began to appear only in January 1892).
Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 295-07.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Tillie Olsen
TO , who remained much in demand as a speaker until almost the end of her life, gave a keynote address at a conference on Charlotte Perkins Gilman .
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press.
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Textual Production Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL 's later suffragist pamphlets include The Faith that is in Us (undated), Does a Man Support his Wife? (1911, co-written with Charlotte Perkins Gilman ), English Militant Methods and In Women's Shoes (both 1913),...
Textual Production Mona Caird
Scholar Ann Heilmann points out that this article significantly predated a series of commentaries of similar cast by Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Cicely Hamilton , Olive Schreiner , and Elizabeth Robins , which emerged over...

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Texts

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Unpunished. Editors Golden, Catherine J. and Denise D. Knight, The Feminist Press, 1997.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. What Diantha Did. Charlton Co., 1910.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. What Diantha Did. Duke University Press, 2005.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women and Economics. T. F. Unwin, 1898.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, and Michael Kimmel. Women and Economics. Editor Aronson, Amy, University of California Press, 1998.